Location

Coilsholm Farm is situated within South Ayrshire, approximately 2 miles south of the town of Tarbolton where there is a range of local shops providing everyday essentials, a primary school and early years centre, a church and a hotel and restaurant. Tarbolton has strong links to Scotland's National Bard, Robert Burns, who co-founded the Bachelor's Club in Tarbolton in 1780 as a debating society where he and his friends discussed philosophical and social topics. It is now preserved as a tourist attraction under the stewardship of the National Trust for Scotland.

The county town of Ayr (9 miles) is easily accessed by car and provides a wide range of high street shops and supermarkets, schooling (including private co-education at Wellington), banking and professional services. There is an excellent range of restaurants and a variety of sports and recreational facilities including Ayr's first class racecourse which is the home of the Scottish Grand National meeting held annually in spring. The Scottish Rural University College (SRUC) and University of the West of Scotland (UWS) share a state of the art campus in Ayr town centre.

The Ayrshire coast is renowned worldwide for its golfing, with championship courses at nearby Turnberry, Prestwick and Royal Troon. There is also a wealth of opportunities for outdoor enthusiasts and families. Culzean Castle and Country Park (run by the National Trust for Scotland) is within 20 miles, and the Galloway Forest Park (one of only four national parks in the western world to have official Dark Sky status) is an area of outstanding natural beauty and offers excellent walking, mountain biking and fishing. There is also a thriving sailing community at Troon.

The farm is within close proximity to the A77, linking to national motorway networks and providing easy access to the central belt of Scotland or south towards the ferry at Cairnryan. There is a train station in Ayr providing services to Glasgow and Stranraer. Glasgow Prestwick and Glasgow International airports are 9 miles and 38 miles respectively, both offering a range of domestic, European and international flights.

Ayrshire is a genuinely rural area, well known for some of the most productive farmland in Scotland, as well as unspoilt countryside and the backdrop of the Firth of Clyde. The rolling landscape, extensive woodland and beautiful coastline provide many opportunities for outdoor pursuits. There are livestock markets at Ayr, Lanark (38 miles) and Stirling (60 miles).

Description

Coilsholm Farm is a ringfenced livestock rearing and arable farm which has been in the same family ownership since 1956. Historically, there was a dairy herd which dispersed in 2020. The farmhouse and buildings sit centrally to the farmland, which is easily accessed from the farm road or internal cow tracks. Owned and available by separate negotiation are three farm cottages (1 and 2 Coilsholm Cottages are a pair of semi-detached, two bedroom cottages, and Coilah is a four bedroom bungalow) all situated adjacent to the private farm road.

Farmhouse
Coilsholm Farmhouse is a traditional farmhouse of stone and slate construction and is attached to a range of former byres which provide useful general storage and create a courtyard at the rear of the farmhouse for parking. The main entrance door, set in a blond sandstone façade, provides access to an internal hallway. To one side is the lounge with open fire and large windows with views over farmland to the north, whilst straight ahead there is a door to the garden area and to the right is a less formal living room with log burner. This living room leads to a further hallway which in turn provides access to the family bathroom, dining room, kitchen and stairs to the first floor, where there are four bedrooms. The farmhouse kitchen benefits from a range of wall and floor units centred around the AGA, with windows to both the courtyard and over the garden and farmland beyond. From the kitchen there is a utility room and access via the courtyard buildings into the courtyard itself.

There is a garden to the front of the farmhouse that is laid to lawn with borders and hedges.

FARM BUILDINGS
The farm buildings at Coilsholm Farm have been developed and maintained to a high standard over the last 50 years. They are geared towards dairying although following the dispersal of the dairy herd in 2020, have adapted well for the purposes of beef calf rearing. The approximate construction and dimensions are as follows:

1. Farmhouse and former byres / traditional buildings (not measured) Traditional stone and slate buildings
2. Bedded Court (2007) (17.9m x 14.6m) Concrete floor, concrete panels, Yorkshire boards and fibre cement roof sheets. Central feed passage with feed barriers.
3. Ex Byre (12.7m x 6.2m) Brick built with fibre cement roof sheets.
4. Silage Pit
5. Slatted House (25.4m x 9.7m) Brick built with fibre cement roof sheets. Central feed passage.
6. Dairy Complex (42.5m x 25.0m + 6.4m x 6.0m) Steel portal frame with block walls, Yorkshire boarding, fibre cement sheet cladding and roof sheets. The parlour (DeLaval herringbone swingover (8:16)), associated pipework and 6,300 litre bulk tank remain in-situ.
7. Silage Pit
8. Feed Store (18.3m x 8.6m) Concrete floor with brick walls, corrugated iron cladding and roof sheets.
9. Dutch Barns (22m x (13.5m + 7.4m) + lean to (20m x 5.6m) Part concrete, part hardcore floors, concrete blockwork walls, corrugated iron cladding and roof sheets.
10. Old Byre (28.6m x 8.1m) Concrete floor with brick walls and fibre cement roof sheets.
11. Calf House ((21.7m x 7.5m (max)) Brick / stone built with slate / fibre cement roof sheets.
Please note, a building has been removed to the south of the grain store following the photographs being taken.

LAND
In total the land extends to 260 acres and is all ploughable pasture capable of arable cropping. It is predominantly Class 3(2) on the James Hutton Institute Land Capability for Agriculture scale, with the exception of an area of 3(1) to the northeast of the farm and two parcels of 4(2). There are typically 70 acres of spring barley grown and 130 acres of first cut silage taken with the remainder being utilised for livestock grazing. The land varies between 74 metres to 107 metres above sea level and is generally undulating, rolling fields. The field enclosures are bound by a combination of post and wire fences and hedges, and all field enclosures benefit from water troughs.

Directions

Directions
From the A77, at the Whitletts Roundabout, take the junction for the B743 (signposted for Mauchline, Mossblown and Auchincruive). After about 2.5 miles, continue through the village of Mossblown and carry on east on the B743. After a further 2.5 miles, the turning for Coilsholm is on the righthand side. There is a farm sign and the private road leads over a railway bridge, passes the cottages and enters the farmyard thereafter.

The postcode is KA5 5TG.

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